Poems of Annihilation

Basho’s Journey in Colombia read while traveling in Medellin and Pereira Santa Rosa de Cabal page 72 David Landis Barnhill vegan zen hot springs Master Dogen buoyancy kimano hostel kimono skirts tennis meditation haiku poetry travel journal

Reading Basho’s journey while traveling in Colombia Dia de las veritas Medellin mosquito bites expat shameful karma drifted off to sleep devotion to the way of haiku Pijao Pereira Angelopolis Matsuo David Landis Barnhill

Basho’s Journey read while in Colombia translated by David Landis Barnhill page 65-66 while groping along the mystic path Salento pijao grateful law of enlightenment Angelopolis haiku poetry expat

Reading Basho while on vacation in the deep Southwest Basho’s Journey and Davy’s Journey together David Landis Barnhill poetry Haiku left with only tears meditation rock Kirpal Rockaway New Jersey Veggie heaven Han Ma Um Zen place of purest serenity deep lonely tranquility stillness penetrating the rocks

Basho’s Journey to deep north in Arizona reading Haiku poetry David Landis Barnhill traveling alone in the desert roadtrip podcast

Reading Basho’s Journey chapter 5 The narrow road to the deep north by David Landis Barnhill the journey itself home rambling Carlsbad Smoke changing clothes at the Laundry mat Priest Butcho Rinsai Zen Japanese Haiku poetry minimalism tennis vegan cross country roadtrip

Reading Basho’s Journey chapter 4 Sarashina journal or kiko casa de manana Black beach La Jolla Pacific ocean floating world Matsuo Basho David Landis Barnhill state university of new york press 2005 Japanese Haiku poetry on roadtrip California

Reading Basho’s Journey on my journey to the Pacific crossing Las Vegas Saigyo “I gazed upon the skill of the Creative” changing clothes salt wind desert hot springs Joshua Tree La Jolla mindfulness meditation David Landis Barnhill japanese haiku poetry on the narrow slot canyon to the deep southwest

Reading Basho’s Poetry while hiking Grand Canyon Basho’s Journey by David Landis Barnhill page 32 Las Vegas floating world mule horse Kaliber beer a yearning to see the Pacific Ocean took hold of me La Jolla Beach and tennis club a splendid souvenir for my drinking friends san diego mission beach travel journal poetry

Reading Kashima Journal of Basho in Page Arizona after visiting Monument Valley at Four Corners having dinner at New York Teriyaki Kashima Kiko from book Basho’s Journey by David Landis Barnhill canyon x Antelope Canyon Journey into the narrow slot canyon to the deep southwest cuckoo crow chaco culture Buckskin Gulch canyon poetry of David Smith acacia

My Journey through Colorado with the poetry of Basho in Basho’s Journey by David Landis Barnhill reading umi kurete kamo no koe honoka ni shiroshi while not dead yet shininmo senu tabine no hate yo aki no kure Japanese Haiku hototogisu I hiked alone at mesa verde national park Saigyo drops trickle down in the form of nectar or rasa or amrit Exodus 20 bleached bones by the roadside on my mind Rice...

Book Reading: Basho’s Journey while on my own Journey in Durango Colorado Matsuo Basho David Landis Barnhill I left my cuarto in Queens I leaned on the staff of an ancient haiku poet Edna Steuben Ohio Vermont Mt Olga chapter 1 Journal of Bleached bones in a field Nozarashi kiko acacia tree waze prius saigyo rosary beads Japanese verse The narrow slot canyon to the deep four corners

A Personalized Reading of Basho’s Journey - the narrow road to the deep Southwest. The literary prose of Matsuo Basho translated by David Landis Barnhill introduction His mother had died the previous year Oku no hosomichi mid autumn scenic spots Vermont Grand Canyon home town bat sand fleas oku sabi wabi “nothing is as alluring as solitude” the narrow road to the deep north haiku poetry travel Oma...

The Tenth Elegy of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies Duineser Elegien read by David Smith from a Stephen Mitchell translation from the German to English “let not even one of the clearly-struck hammers of my heart fail to sound because of a slack, a doubtful, or a broken string. Winter-enduring foliage Vermont “one season in our inner year” “the city’s edges are curling with carnival” “chew fresh...

The Duineser Elegien of Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 the Duino Elegies Poetry read by David Smith because it serenely distains to annihilate us when a wind full of infinite gnaws at our faces for there is no place where we can remain. “Strange to no longer desire one’s desires” UNC studies Elaine Boney “bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest acheivement” GoPro hero Vermont leaf peeping “superabundant b...

Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke translated to English by Stephen Mitchell and read by David Smith whitely “her simple and unselfcentered Mary-life” “some evening take a step out of your house” Orpheus Eurydice Hermes hiking stick archaic torso of Apollo Buddha in Glory again again for the sake of a single poem how to write poetry “to partings you had long seen coming” childhood “time in school drags a...

Three Yeats poems read by David Smith Under Ben Bulben Lapis Lazuli Sailing to Byzantium dying animal singing school

Poetry reading of Arthur Rimbaud french poet translated by Louise Varese Hunger Salads and fruits await but the picking; but violets are the food of spiders in the thicket “I had to travel, divert the spells assembled in my brain” “autumn already! But why regret an eternal sun if we are embarked on the discovery of divine light” “one must be absolutely modern” “I saw the hell of women back there;...

Poetry reading of William Butler Yeats poems by David Smith The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Old men admiring themselves in the water the three hermits a witty lovely lady sang unnoticed like a bird the wild swans at coole central park rowboat pond The tower Plato Plotinus pythagoras among school children w. b. Yeats better to smile on all that smile, and show there is a comfortable kind of old scar...

Poetry reading by the author, David Smith while in NYC Boscobel Sept 11 2016 poem on Wix blog davidsmith208 Hudson River Cold Spring New York State Verrazano Newburgh curry poem

Not many poems in 2017 because he was a slow learner. Poem from 2017 read by the author, David Smith NYC from wix blog site davidsmith208 but many posts on other books and poems 41 years 15,000 days gluttony practice of meditation zen brain scan crypto-currency canto 6 Inferno Dante Shakespeare sonnet 2 sex chit sound current surat shabd yoga John Ciardi

Poetry of David R. Smith NYC read by the author, poems from August 23rd 2017 to July 2017 from the Wix site blog davidsmith208 Kyoto Basho handball tennis “spell of quiet” Sant Darshan Singh meditation exercise Simran scuba diving astral plane greek ocean flippers rehab hospital thickened water stroke victim amrit ras third eye medical symbol kundalini portion control body fat percentage dark nigh...

Poems of David Smith NYC from December 2017 read by the author from the Wix site blog DavidSmith208 Hindu Muslim Christian Buddhist Kabir Panthi Gorakhnath Nanak Sant Mat Radha Soami Swami Shiv Dayal Singh Krpler 62e 63b 62f planets Taoism Tao Te Ching Lao tzu meditation non-action outer space poetry reading

Poetry reading of Tukaram Says Tuka Penquin Classics By Dilip Chitre read by David Smith NYC Bhakti poet Marathi famine God-crazy posted Feb 2018 wix blog davidsmith208

Poetry reading by the author, David Smith NYC February 24th 2018 poem posted on Wix blog davidsmith208 the rumbling SatNam Guru Nanak Guru Granth Gurbani black hole Alina Zagitova leaves of grass 44-47 Walt Whitman teacher of athletes